Naked Lunch (Film), released 1991 — adapted from Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, William Burroughs.
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
Starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider.
Directed by David Cronenberg.
